I have an HP Color LaserJet CP1215. I have tried installing it with the CUPS Printer Wizard but cannot find it in the list of available printer drivers. I have tried several but not all of the other HP Color Laserjet printer drivers but none seem to be able to work. Any suggestions or am I just out of luck? Thanks

I downloaded and installed the hpijs-3.10.6-dynppd.pet as you suggested. It did indeed have a driver for my HP Color LaserJet CP1215. However it fails to print. Here is the message that CUPS gives when I try to give a print command.
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"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
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Also there is note with the driver that it requires a proprietary plugin. I have searched for the plugin but have not found it. Even the HP website driver download page says the plugin is required but from what I can see doesn't tell you how to get it.

These HP printers with proprietary plugins are really annoying. Some older models are handled with a non-HP driver that works in Puppy. But it doesn't cover your cp1215.

If you were using a big-boy distro like Debian, which includes a compiler, you would download the full HPLIP package and auto-install your printer. Supposedly, it would then let you download the magic plugin.

But these plugins don't seem to be available through any other source. I tried to set up my own HP printer using a compiler environment, but the HP auto-installer didn't work anyway.

There is an alternate HP package for Puppy here that has optional plugin-support. Unfortunately, the download site it directs you to does not offer a plugin for your model. You could try some of the others.

The easiest approach would be to just download the install_hp_plugin-2.0.pet from lluamco's thread and try one of the plugins for the Color LJ 3500.

I have downloaded and installed the install_hp_plugin-2.0.pet from lluamco's thread and then downloaded and installed the Color LJ 3500 plugin but it did not help. I also tried installing HPLIPLITE but it doesn't help either. I go to the cups management at local host:631 and tell the printer to print a test page it sends it and gives the message it is processing and then it disappears and when I click on show completed jobs it shows it as completed but it does not actually print.

I also have a HP Laserjet 1020 that also needs a plugin. There is a specific plugin available for the HP LJ 1020. However, I have done the same process for it and get the very same result.

I am testing these printer drivers on a usb frugal install. I have learned to back up my lupusave file before I make any major changes so I can go back to it if need be. I downloaded the foo2xxx driver package and did a fresh install. It worked great. The LJ1020 now printers fine.

So one problem solved. Thanks so much. Is there anything else I can do to try and get the color laserjet cp1215 printing? Thanks again.

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